Writes and maintains the pipeline
Renderers, checkers and delivery scripts are code that Claude Code writes, debugs and changes as the rules change.
AI content studio · Built with Claude Code
Short-form video, fired by code.
ShortKiln automates the short-form video pipeline — planning, production, review and delivery — using Claude Code. Every video passes automated quality gates before it ships.
ShortKiln — 1인 AI 콘텐츠 스튜디오. Claude Code 로 숏폼 영상 기획·제작·검수·납품 파이프라인을 자동화합니다.
5pipeline stages
15+video formats produced
22M+channel views
2026founded · South Korea
How it works
One pipeline, from topic to upload-ready file.
Each stage is code that Claude Code writes and maintains. A video moves forward only when it passes the gates.
01
Topic
Find subjects and formats worth making.
02
Script
Story order, opening hook and caption text.
03
Edit
Cuts, captions, color grading and rendering, driven by code.
04
QA gates
Automated checks. Any failure sends the video back to editing.
05
Delivery
The finished file plus upload-ready title and description.
A failed gate loops back to Edit — fix, re-render, re-check.
How we use Claude
Claude Code is the production team.
The studio runs on code and agents rather than headcount.
Agents for research and planning
Separate Claude agents handle topic research and planning, so the main session stays focused on production.
A second agent challenges big decisions
Important design choices are drafted by one model and challenged by another before they are adopted.
- Shorts UI occlusionOn-screen text never sits under the Shorts buttons, title or channel bar.
- SilenceNo pause longer than 0.8 s; first spoken word within 0.3 s.
- Color gradingEvery video goes through the channel's grading preset.
- Blocked contentBlocked sources and topics are rejected before delivery.
- Content credentialsThe final file is signed with C2PA.
Open source · MIT
shorts-safe-zone
Our Shorts UI occlusion gate, released as a standalone CLI. It reads on-screen text in a vertical video and fails it if any text sits under the platform's buttons, title or channel bar. Built with Claude Code.
Studio activity
Shipping every day.
The pipeline is a living codebase. Rules and checks are added as we learn what makes a video fail.
303pipeline commits since Sep 28
102written production rules
33automated check tools · 117 test files
57scheduled background jobs
- Source-rights gate added in front of every delivery folder.
- Long-form gate now catches black pillarbox bars from 4:3 broadcast sources.
- Trend tracker for rising Shorts across KR, US and JP charts.
- Cut review caches passed cuts — only failures are re-checked.
- Health checker for all scheduled background jobs.
- Audio review: loudness (−14 LUFS), sync and caption-overlap checks.
- Automatic blur boxes for logos and burned-in text in source footage.
- Delivery links the C2PA-signed file to its production order by hash.
Counts from our own repository and output folder, as of October 8, 2026.
Formats
One pipeline, many shows.
Each format has its own spec, rules and gates. A few of the formats we have produced:
News commentary shorts
Political news explained in under a minute, with a clear opinion line and on-screen sources.
Celebrity moment montages
Face-tracked edits of a single moment, rendered in Korean, English and Japanese versions.
Military & aviation explainers
Aircraft and naval history told in short, caption-led clips.
Nature compilations
Wordless clips of ice, water and aurora, with the original creators credited on screen.
Joseon folk tales
Long-form storytelling with AI-generated illustrations and a single narrated voice.
Profile long-form
Life stories of public figures with a year chip and progress bar template.
Work
Published on YouTube.
Videos made with this pipeline go out on our own channel.
아싸이드
YouTube Shorts channel · since May 2026
YouTube Partner Program20.3Ksubscribers
22,053,277total views
202videos published
YPPmonetized channel
Channel figures from YouTube, October 8, 2026.
About
A small studio with a long pipeline.
ShortKiln is run by founder Yura Kwon, who builds the tooling and the content together.
- Company
- ShortKiln
- Founded
- 2026
- Location
- South Korea
- Founder
- Yura Kwon
- Team
- 1 founder
- Stack
- Claude Code
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